The Young Eagle

[Gene C]

Good question Bill.

From the introduction
"Five years before his death in 1887, Joshua Speed, the truest friend that Abraham Lincoln ever made, pondered the unfathomable achievements of the sixteenth president. "For me to have lived to see such a man rise from point to point, and from place to place, filling all the places to which he was called, with honor and distinction, until he reached the presidential chair in the most trying times that any ruler had, seems to me', he marveled, 'more like fiction than fact'. Watching Lincoln rise, he likened his friend to a 'young eagle', stretching his wings to catch the wind that was America and leaving the world below him to soar to the horizon beyond."